Czech researchers gain access to Soviet World War II prisoner of war records

Czech and Slovak researchers have received a wealth of documents from the
Russian authorities about the fates of thousands of Czechoslovak citizens
imprisoned within the Soviet Union during and after the Second World War.
The access only pertains to military archives, and involves around 38,000
Czechoslovak soldiers fighting on behalf of Nazi Germany – mostly ethnic
Germans, Slovaks and Hungarians. I spoke with Adam Hradilek of Institute
for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, which received a copy of the
documents this week, and began by asking him about how helpful this
information might be to the surviving families of such prisoners: